Clarion 1940-10-01 Vol 20 No 02

Conference Authorizes Dormitory
Construction Next Spring
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XX No. 2 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) October 1, 1940
Formulate
'41 Spire
Activity
Book Dedicated to
Pres. G. Arvid Hagstrom
Appointing the SPIRE1 staff, se-curing
bids on printing, engraving,
and binding, and planning the fi-nancial
success of the 1941 year-book
are part of the work already
accomplished by Lemuel Petersen
and Mary Ann Liljenstrom, editor
and business manager respectively
of the SPIRE.
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, presi-dent,
will be honored by the
publication. The book will not
only be dedicated to him, but
it will also contain a biography
and appreciation of his life
ministry, according to Peter-sen.
There will also be several
pictures of him in current and
past poses.
Subscriptions from the students
will be secured in a campaign be-ginning
Monday, October 7. Miss
Liljenstrom will appoint 10 cap-tains
to assist in this work. The
campaign will continue for two
weeks. The price is $1 for the stu-dents
and $1.50 for all others.
In order to balance the budg-et,
300 books must be sold out-side
of the school. The stu-dents
will be organized into 10
teams with an average goal of
three subscriptions for each
student. The advance campaign
will begin on Monday, October
21, and continue until Friday,
December 6.
Continued on page 3)
Campus Calendar
TODAY
Men's basketball tournout, Gym,
3:30 p. m.
Homecoming committee. JC 212,
3:40 p. m.
SPIRE editorial staff, Publica-tions
office, 12:40 p. m.
TOMORROW
SPIRE program, JC Chapel, 9:40
a. m.
THURSDAY
BWA, Women's recreation room,
3 p. m.
Women's basketball turnout,
Gym, 2:45 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, October 9
Alexis Literary society, Seminary
Chapel, 8 p. m.
FRIDAY, October 11
Women's Federation Smorgas-bord,
JC Chapel, 5:30 p. m.
TUESDAY, October 15
Chautauquan program, JC Cha-pel,
8 p. m.
"Gallup-poll" gag—
Produces 3 Suckers
By SCOOP
"A sucker is' born every four sec-onds,"
according to P. T. Barnum
of circus fame. That tradition
must hold good at Bethel.
Three suckers were produc-ed
from the Bethel student
body last Tuesday evening.
Everyone knows that Cliff
Bjorklund bit on the "Gallup-poll"
gag. But here's news—
BOB PAULSON AND GOR-DON
PETERSON WERE AL-SO
VICTIMS OF THE SAME
HOAX. The explanation of this
is hilariously embarrassing.
Gordon Nelson and Archie John-son
spent an uproarious evening
on the telephone as representa-tives
of the "Gallup poll." Their
first sucker was Bob Paulson, who
recommended Gordy Pete. These
fellows in turn thought that it
would be a great idea to fool some-one—
so, they called Cliff at 11:15
oclock.
Continued on page 3)
What is a school without a school
song?
We lack school spirit! What's
more, we won't have enthusiasm at
our athletic games! And we don't
have a song to carry away with us
as a part of our Bethel memories.
To overcome this deplorable
state of affairs, the CLARION
staff is announcing that it will
sponsor a song-writing contest.
Within the next month, Bethel
poets and poetesses will have a
chance to make a permanent
contribution to the Bethel heri-tage.
Authority to build a Girl's Dor-mitory
on the corner of Arlington
and Arona Avenues has been given
to the Conference Board—when it
sees that the project can be car-ried
through—by the Swedish Bap-tist
General conference at the con-vention
held at Rockford, Illinois,
this Summer. It is hoped that the
ground-breaking ceremony will take
place next Spring as soon as the
weather permits.
H. Wyman Malmsten, Bethel
representative, reports that of
the $40,000 necessary to build
the dormitory, over $33,000 has
been raised in cash and pledg-es.
Approximately half of this
amount is available in cash.
The Bethel Institute Women's
federation is planning a Swedish
Smorgasbord, on October 11, in or-der
to contribute to furnishing the
dormitory and also to donate chairs
to the Boarding club and the Cof-fee
shoppe.
—Now Open to Poets
All that is required is that each
writer submit words which could
fittingly be used for a Bethel
school song. This song will be
used at basketball games, school
events, and alumni meetings. Prof.
George Hultgren, in a similar con-test
conducted previously, promised
to compose the music for such a
song.
The deadline for entries will be
Friday, November 1. At that time,
the manuscripts will be judged,
music written, and the song learned
in time for the basketball season.
Full particulars will be announc-ed
on the bulletin board this week.
Gospel Teams
Attract 85
Students
Council Selects Team
and Prayer Leaders
Dale Bjork as vice-president of
the Religious council has already
organized the gospel-team work.
Following a chapel program, 85
of the students signed up for par-ticipation.
This compares favor-ably
with 72 participants of last
year.
Clifford Bjorklund, Gunnar
Hoglund, Ben Sherman, Mel-vin
Swanson, and Gordon John-son
are to be the leaders of the
teams for the first semester.
According to plans, the gospel
teams will cover a wider field
than last year. Teams will be
sent regularly to Linnea home,
West Side mission, Union Gos-pel
mission, and Ancker hos.
pital. Later in the year teams
will travel to nearby churches.
The council has also selected
leaders for the daily prayer meet-ings.
Gordon Larson will take
charge of the morning devotions.
Beverly Jones and Hazelle Possum
have been selected as leaders of
the boys' and of the girls' noon
praye' meetings, respectively. Le-ona
Pearson is in charge of the
evening prayer service.
The cabinet for this year is corn-posed
of the following members:
president, Elving Anderson; vice-president,
Dale Bjork; treasurer,
Muriel Petersen; Missionary band
representative, William Hagstrom;
adviser, Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom.
C. E. Jones Leads
Program Series
Electricity! Aeronautics!
Music! Adventure! These are
the subjects to be presented by
the Chautauquan series this
year at Bethel.
C. E. Jones, an electrical scien-tist,
will bring us an up to date
program on "Silent Sounds And
Nerve Electricity" on Tuesday, Oc-tober
15.
Richard iFinnie, youthful vet-eran
of eight Arctic expedi-tions,
will present an illus-trated
lecture "Among The Ig-loo
Dwellers" on November 15.
On January 10, an illustrated
lecture on aeronautics will be
given by Walter van Haitsma,
an authority on this subject.
Stanley Osborne. an extensive
adventurer, will tell of his travels
below the equator. On April 4, Don-ald
Scott-Morrison, an outstanding
young pianist, will present a unique
program of music appreciation.
CLARION Contest For— SCHOOL SONG
The Bethel Clarion
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
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Published by students every other Tuesday
except in July and August.
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Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
HOBBY HORSE edito/ded ea.ti I MEDITATIONS
By CAROLINE DILGARD
Hobbies afford one much pleas-ure
and profit if pursued consist-ently.
Everyone can have some sort
of hobby whether costly or inex-pensive.
In each issue of the
CILARION this year we are going
to tell you about someone here at
Bethel who has a hobby of special
interest. This time we are taking
an outstanding hobbyist, Professor
Theodore Bergman.
Bergman is one of the busiest
people you will ever meet. He has
been for many years a well-known
Twin City organist and pianist.
One of his hobbies is playing piano
duos with James Shire Allen, but
he also has other interests not re-lated
to music.
In Northern Minnesota Bergman
has acquired a beautiful plot of
land on which there is a little
creek running down to Lake Su-perior.
He has built there a cot-tage
which Mrs. Bergman and June,
his daughter, have greatly enjoyed
decorating. To this quiet retreat
the Bergman family goes every
year to spend the month of August,
and also for short holidays when
time permits. This temporary rus-tic
life provides the rest necessary
to one living Bergman's life of al-most
ceaseless activity.
Photography is another of our
genial professor's hobbies, and a
profitable one too. IDvery year he
prints approximately 500 Christ-mas
cards for people who want the
unusual and the beautiful. He gets
as much as $1 for a single card.
He does exquisite work and his
cards are displayed in some of the
best stores in Minneapolis.
Bergman has yet another hobby
and that is collecting first issues of
magazines. He is justly proud of
his collection as it is one of the
largest in the northwest. It may
prove to be a gold mine in years to
come, for a lot of people are col-lecting
first issues and would give
their eye-teeth for some of those
Bergman has in his possession.
If you cherish an ambition to
live a rich and well-rounded life
such as Mr. Bergman does, why
not start today a hobby that will
help- you relax and yet will broad-en
your viewpoint and perhaps even
fill your purse? Watch the Hobby
Horse for further suggestions.
Thank you, repo4ers, faculty,
and others that, have cooperated to
make the publication of this issue
a pleasant job. The reporters had
their copy in on time (believe it or
not, miracles still happen).
Installation of BWA officers will
take place Thursday at 3 p. m. in
the women's recreation room with
Viola Waihela presiding. The regu-lar
meetings are on the first Thurs-day
of each month.
"MARRED, BUT REMADE"
In Jeremiah 18 we see that dis-couraged
prophet of God told to go
down to the potter's house, there
to learn a lesson of utmost im-portance.
The context reveals that
the lives of the people were marred
by sin and failure, and Jeremiah
thought he could do no more to
stay the people from destruction.
Curiously, no doubt, he watched
as the quick, clever hands of the
potter formed his vessel from a
lump of shapeless clay. Just a few
mores touches before completion—
and then, it crumbled at his feet.
". . . The vessel was marred." How
many marred lives are there to-day?
The Lord seeks to make His
children "meet for the Master's
use." God has a plan for every life
and He would fashion us accord-ing
to His will. Then why defeat
and failure? Something has come
in and marred that life; an unyield-ed
will, a proud spirit, an uncon-fessed
sin.
But the potter did not throw
away those broken bits of clay;
rather he gathered them together,
kneaded them in his hands and
placed it once again upon the
wheel. Have you ever thought
about that second vessel? Was it
as good as the first might have
been? Possibly not—and there is
such a thing as God's second best
for a life, But we have every rea-son
to believe it just as good and
that it served the original purpose.
Yes, and lives defeated by self and
sin, can be remade. Look at Da-vid,
his was a marred life, but God
remade Him. Think of Jacob, the
"supplanter," but he met the Lord
face to face and his name was
changed to Israel, "a prince with
God"—he had been remade. And
Peter, who denied his Lord was
made over at Pentecost, and went
out to be used of God.
Have Thine own way Lord, have
Thine own way.
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy
will,
While I am waiting, yielded and
still.
—Dave Anderson.
VERSE
BE STILL, AND KNOW
I walked in the quiet of ev'ning
time;
I rested in midnight's deep;
I rose at the rosy dawn each day;
I toiled in the noontime heat.
I worked—and I thought as I hur-ried
on,
"Time's short—I must finish to-day."
But the Father placed His hands
on mine,
And spoke—"take time to pray."
That simple command—how hard
to keep—
Before to my work I can go—
He draws me gently to His side,
And says: "Be still, and know."
—Submitted.
Bethel Affords Opportunities For All
We propose to advance the cause of Bethel, for 'Bethel offers exclu-sive
advantages. It provides for the spiritual experience and growth of
its students, it offers opportunities to develop Christian leadership, it
is conducive to the building of strong character, it is interested in
strong spiritual, mental, social, and physical men and women.
Twenty years ago a group of progressive Bethelites with an eye for
the future of their Alma Mater organized a campus newspaper. The
past 20 years have not diminished this progressive spirit.
Last year the CLARION under the leadership of a capable editorial
and business staff with the faithful cooperation of its reporters again
advanced in size and quality. This year the staff will attempt to uphold
the high standard attained in past years to add to the CLARION'S former
successes.
"Student talent galore" was a comment we heard on the campus. It
is true that there is much talent in the Bethel student body. This has
been evidenced at various times and on numerous occasions. Now it
seems a shame that you poets and poetesses should permit but one or
two special friends to admire' your creations. Bring them in to the Pub-lications
office and let us print them. As soon as the issue with your
contribution is out, see one of the editorial staff and they will provide
you with as many copies as you can use to send to your various friends.
Make the CLARION your paper.
Of course we welcome suggestions. Where there is improvement
there is progress. Improvement presupposes change. We may be so
used to doing things a certain way that a better method will be smoth-ered
by a previous habit. Your suggestions will keep us out of a rut.
We will be glad to make any change for the better.
MICE AND THINGS .. .
By RODGER RENDAHL
The peoples of Israel had their
Hittites, their Cannonites and the
rest of their numerous "ites," but
Bethel has its Dormites, which ac-cording
to an old English defini-tion
means "certain types of mice
and other rodents which hibernate
through the winter" — thus the
name for this column.
The Dorm this year has 29 in-habitants
(complete now — Ferre
came back). Twenty-six are Semi-nary
students, of which an even
dozen hold churches. There are 10
states and two Canadian provinces
represented, which makes this
quite a cosmopolitan area.
Our Czecho-Slovakian choir di-rector
is now an accomplished bell
ringer, practicing at 6:30. Ole Nel-son
has left the high seas for the
upper deck, it seems more natural.
"Boom" has been seen wearing a
red shirt, which just goes to show
he has had a successful 'dear' sea-son.
'Pipe-the-Piper' Lundquist gets
the Dormites out with "Clean lin-en"
Saturday mornings. Sh-h-h-h,
we have curtains now.
Volleyball, Soccer, Football
Engaged In By Gym Classes
Physical education classes, under the supervision of Coach Bill Adams,
are engaged in volleyball tournaments.
An over-abundance of students in the Fredhmen Tuesday and
Thursday class was reason for the formation of another frosh class
which meets on Monday and Wednesday.
The sophomore women are en-grossed
in battling for volleyball
honors. This class is divided into
two teams, the Ace Balls and the
Dream Balls. Total results are as
follows: On Wednesday morning, every-
Won Lost one teased Cliff, but Bob and Gordy
Ace Balls 5 4 Pete thought their calls were not
Dream Balls 4 5 fake and hence were not in line for
The freshmen co-eds are also ridicule.
Gallup-poll
(Continued from page 1)
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playing themselves out in volley-ball.
There are enough girls in this
class to form four teams. Results
at this writing are as follows:
Won Lost
Bullets 8 4
Hot Shots 7 5
Infants 7 5
Buzzers 4 8
The sophomore boys are turning
their attention to volleyball also.
There are two teams in the sopho-more
class, the Dead End Kids
with five wins and one loss, and
the Super Men with just a reverse
record, one win and five losses.
The standings of the Tuesday and
Thursday freshmen class teams are
as follows:
Won Lost
Cowboys 7 2
Swedes 6 3
Plugs 4 5
Blitzkriegers 3 6
For the Monday and Wednesday
class, the Gophers are leading the
Foreigners, 12 wins and four loss-es,
the Foreigners having the re-verse
of that score.
Another sport worthy of mention
is intramural touch football. Some
of the scores up to this writing are
as follows:
College Sophs 28
College Frosh 0
Seminary 19
College Left-Overs 14
These battles take place on Mon-day,
Wednesday and Friday. The
Championship team will take on an
All-Star roster during Homecom-ing.
Everyone is invited to witness
these three-per-week scraps •which
start at 4:00 p. m.
Debate To Begin When
Question Is Received
A varied and active forensic pro-gram
is being planned for the year.
This activity will again be under
the direction of Miss Enid Platts.
Actual work on the debate ques-tion
will not begin until after the
Pi Kappa Delta debate question for
colleges is announced. Until that
time the students will be engaged
in studying the principles of argu-mentation.
There are nine students
participating in this activity.
FOR TREATS IN EATS
Go to the
MIDTOWN COFFEE SHOP
1535 W. Como Ave.
It is no longer fair to think
of Cliff as the sucker, but this
exclusive story reveals that
other characters are doing well
at biting on this subtle gag.
Four questions were asked by the
"Gallup poll"—(1) Who do you fa-vor—
Roosevelt or Willkie? (2) Are
you in favor of conscription? (3)
Who will win the war—Great Brit-ain
or Germany? (4) What color
hair do you prefer?
Both Bob and Gordy were found
to be supporters of Willkie, and
Cliff was undecided. Gordy and
Cliff were opposed to conscription
with Bob approving the measure.
Bob, only, thought that Germany
would win the war, while Gordy
and Cliff held to Britain's superior
strength. In answer to a question
as to the color of hair favored,
Cliff called brunette his choice.
1941 Spire
(Continued from page 1)
To introduce the SPIRE plans to
the student body, a chapel pro-gram
will be given tomorrow.
An evening program to raise ad-ditional
money for the year-book
is planned for Friday evening, No-vember
29.
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Historic Homecoming
To Use Indian Motif
Plans for Homecoming Day,
which will be Friday, November 1,
are centered about an Indian
theme. At the first meeting of the
combined committees this motif
was decided upon.
Many suggestions were of-fered
during the meeting to
make this year's event an out-standing
one in the history of
Bethel Homecomings, accord-ing
to Virgil Olson, general
chairman.
The committees will meet
again today to plan more de-tails
for the coming gala event.
Because this school year marks
the 70th anniversary of the found-ing
of the Serdinary and the 10th
of the beginning of the Junior Col-lege,
some events of historical in-terest
will be worked in. Sugges-tions
were also made for a fresh-man-
sponsored bonfire the night
before Homecoming, for a sand-bag
fight on the campus of Homecom-ing
afternoon, and for a program
to fill the entire Homecoming day
after chapel.
The Indian theme was
thought suggestive for the en.
tire program because the ath-letic
teams are familiarly
known by that term.
The five committees working on
the plan are: program, publicity,
decorations, souvenirs, and eats.
Cage Season Begins ,
For Hopeful Coeds
Co-eds of Bethel will be after the
ol' pill again this year. The first
basketball practice of the season
for the women will be held Thurs-day
afternoon, at 2:45 o'clock,
Coach Bill Adams supervising the
action.
Regular practice is scheduled for
every Thursday at this same hour.
In order to make the team, all
players must be on hand each
Thursday.
TILDEN FOOD MARKET
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B. RIEGER'S MEAT -MARKET
Now located at
1337 Pascal Avenue
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Hoop Season
Begins Today
With Turnouts
Basketball prospects will swing
into action with a turnout of all
candidates today at 3 : 30 p. m.,
Coach Bill Adam announced. Pro-spective
freshmen are urged to at-tend
this meeting.
The frosh and last year's
varsity team will scrimmage
every Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon. This type of prac-tice
will continue until after
Homecoming, when Coach
Adam will start cutting the
squad. As this goes on, the
first real practice of basket-ball
fundamentals will take
place.
Although the schedule for the
season is not completed, the first
game will be played in the first
part of December.
Written Matter Barred
From Laundry Parcels
No written matter can be
enclosed in any package or
laundry parcel, according to
Post Office regulations. The
inclusion of such matter places
the article in first-class mail,
which demands a much higher
sending cost, and if undeclar-ed,
places sender under liabili-ty
of a fine.
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Dyeing
Bethel Representative
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Room 201
S. Berglund Lumber Co.
824 Arcade St.
1171 Snelling Ave. No.
Westlund's
QUALITY FOODS AT FAIR
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Prompt Delivery Service
597 Snelling Avenue No.
Phone: NEstor 1321
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Rev. R. E.
Omark
Seminary
Prof. F.
Nelson
J. C.
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Omark, Nelson Added to Sem, J. C. Staff
Hultgren Forms
Women's Choir
What! No A Cappella choir?
That's right. There is going to be
no mixed chorus this year.
A Women's chorus will be
organized in four-part harmony
to take the place of the A Cap-pella.
The different parts will
cover the regular harmonic
schedule, for example, the low
altos singing the part ordinari-ly
taken by the second bass of
a mixed choir. Some good ma-terial
for this type of chorus
has been discovered, Hultgren
said.
Professor George Hultgren made
this announcement after he had
finished the voice tryouts. How-ever,
the Male chorus will func-tion
as usual. No results of the
try-outs have been made public as
yet, but announcements will be
made either tomorrow or Thurs-day.
Band Will Play For
Games and Programs
Twenty-five individuals, 13 of
them old members and 12 new,
have already registered for the
band. This is a considerable in-crease
over the 15 members par-ticipating
last year, according to
Gordon Peterson, band leader.
The band will play at basketball
games, various school activities,
and for about half an hour before
most Chautauquan programs.
Alexis Imitators Mimic
Preachers, October 9
Exceptional mimickers will imi-tate
their favorite ministers
Wednesday evening, October 9 in
the Seminary chapel, at the first
meeting of the Alexis Literary so-ciety.
Members will try to guess
who is represented. John Bergeson,
announced that a musical and de-votional
period followed by a so-cial
hour of games and refresh-ments
in the dining hall will be
conducted after the regular meet-ing.
Five programs have been plan-ned
for this semester. Nearly every
member of the society will have
some part in these programs
which, according to Bergeson, will
be entertaining, uplifting, educa-tional,
and helpful. The program
will occur on the following Wednes-day
evenings: October 9, October
30, November 27, and December 11.
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Omark Takes Over
Teaching Post In Sem
"I'm glad I came!"
This was the comment of Rev.
R. E. Omark, new instructor in the
Seminary, after a week's acquaint-ance
with his new duties.
Rev. Omark returns to Beth-el
after two year's experience
teaching high school, and 11
year's service in two pastor-ates.
He received his training
at the University of Illinois,
Bethel seminary, and South-western
Baptist seminary.
He is married and has a 4 year
old daughter. His home state is
Illinois. As to age, he claims to be
Colonel Charles Lindbergh's twin.
His hobbies run along sport-ing
and agrarian lines; tennis
and vegetable gardening occu-pying
most of his leisure time.
He would rather participate in
sports than watch others play.
He has also coached high
school basketball.
"To me, Bethel means opportun-ity,"
said Professor Omark, "oppor-tunity
for enlarged vision, oppor-tunity
for rare fellowship, and op-portunity
for consecrated service."
C. E. Carlson Finds
Vacation Busy Time
Between periods of studying,
preaching, and teaching, Professor
C. E. Carlson found very little time
for leisure activity this summer.
For one week he taught a course
in orientation and living within
God's will (which Bethel students
call "advance freshman lectures")
at the Minnesota Swedish summer
assembly in Alexandria.
Almost without exception he ful-filled
one or two pulpit engage-ments
on Sundays, and often spoke
at a B.Y.P.U. meeting or taught a
Sunday School class.
DOELTZ DRUG STORE
Midway Pkwy & Pascal Ave.
Drug Needs Photo Finishing
Refreshments
Fridolph Nelson Joins
Junior College . Faculty
Coming from a pioneer Baptist
family into our midst as an in-structor,
Professor Fridolph Nel-son
of Berkeley, California, has
expressed his delight in his new
position with "We like the coun-try,
we like the school and we es-pecially
like the people!"
He was born into the home
of Rev. F. 0. ,Nelson, pioneer
Baptist minister and one of the
first graduates of Morgan Park
seminary, Chicago. Prof. Nel-son
has spent his entire life in
the western part of the United
States, living in Montana, Min-nesota,
Washington, and Cali-fornia.
Prof. Nelson received his entire
education in California, graduating
from Turlock High school. He re-ceived
an M. A. degree from the
University of California this year,
after taking graduate student work
from January to August.
Of the nine brothers and sis-ters
in the F. 0. Nelson family,
six are either in or directly
connected with the Christian
work, and are scattered from
Cuba to Shanghai.
Prof. Nelson has always had the
feeling that he would sometime Jive
in the land of his father, Minne-sota.
This dream has now been
realized.
Olson Teaches, Preaches
During Summer
Prof. Adolph Olson, soft-spoken
Seminary teacher of Bible, church
history, church polity, systematic
theology, and history of Baptists,
spent a summer unlike any student.
His vacation period was filled in
teaching and preaching at various
assemblies and young people's
classes.
During the earlier part of the
summer he spent some time at
the Twin City boys' and girls'
camp at Wood Lake, Wiscon-sin.
Mrs. Olson had charge of
the girls' section of the camp.
At the young people's assembly
of Michigan he took up his duties
as a teacher and taught two young
people's 'classes.
Later he spent two weeks at the
young people's assembly of New
York at Elim Park, Conn. Besides
teaching a class in Baptist distinc-tives,
he also did some preaching.
Bapt. Youth
Plan Advance
Lemuel Petersen was elected
vice-president of the Minnesota
B.Y.P.U. at its recent convention
in Winona, Minnesota. Last year,
the served as state ace for the or-ganization.
Ray Anderson of the Northwest-ern
Bible school was re-elected
president of the state organization.
A nine-point program was
adopted for the coming year:
youth evangelism, associational
cooperation, appointment of a
Director of Christian Educa-tion,
new plan of finances, pub-lication
of an annual-directory,
Life Service league, summer
assembly, cooperation in Bap-tist
Youth fellowship, and lead-ership
training.
Lowell Marquardt, sophomore,
was the state 'vice-president last
year. Elna Finstrom, '40, was re-elected
editor of the organization's
service monthly bulletin. Warren
Soule, ex 40, was elected state ace
for the coming year.
Prayer-Mission Day
Plans Being Completed
Do you need prayer?' Are you in-terested
in missions?
Prayer and Mission Day will be
observed at Bethel 'Wednesday, Oc-tober
23. The committee for ar-rangements
is Miss Esther Sabel,
chairman; Miss Effie Nelson, Dean
K. J. Karlson, Dean Emery John-son,
and Professor Adolph Olson.
The committee is completing
arrangements to obtain special
speakers for the program.
Miss Sabel urges all students
to be present as she believes
that the meeting will be a great
blessing and much benefit to
all who attend.
Completed details will be an-nounced
later.
For Your
CHRISTMAS CARDS
and
GIFT WRAPPINGS
see
JOHN VALINE
C. G. JOHNSON
Men's Shop—Snappy Toggery
Discount to Students
504 No. Snelling Ave.
near University. Midway 6491
HAMLINE HARDWARE CO.
GENERAL HARDWARE
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 No. Snelling Ave., St. Paul
JEWELERS
OPTOMETRISTS
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
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Conference Authorizes Dormitory
Construction Next Spring
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XX No. 2 BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) October 1, 1940
Formulate
'41 Spire
Activity
Book Dedicated to
Pres. G. Arvid Hagstrom
Appointing the SPIRE1 staff, se-curing
bids on printing, engraving,
and binding, and planning the fi-nancial
success of the 1941 year-book
are part of the work already
accomplished by Lemuel Petersen
and Mary Ann Liljenstrom, editor
and business manager respectively
of the SPIRE.
Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom, presi-dent,
will be honored by the
publication. The book will not
only be dedicated to him, but
it will also contain a biography
and appreciation of his life
ministry, according to Peter-sen.
There will also be several
pictures of him in current and
past poses.
Subscriptions from the students
will be secured in a campaign be-ginning
Monday, October 7. Miss
Liljenstrom will appoint 10 cap-tains
to assist in this work. The
campaign will continue for two
weeks. The price is $1 for the stu-dents
and $1.50 for all others.
In order to balance the budg-et,
300 books must be sold out-side
of the school. The stu-dents
will be organized into 10
teams with an average goal of
three subscriptions for each
student. The advance campaign
will begin on Monday, October
21, and continue until Friday,
December 6.
Continued on page 3)
Campus Calendar
TODAY
Men's basketball tournout, Gym,
3:30 p. m.
Homecoming committee. JC 212,
3:40 p. m.
SPIRE editorial staff, Publica-tions
office, 12:40 p. m.
TOMORROW
SPIRE program, JC Chapel, 9:40
a. m.
THURSDAY
BWA, Women's recreation room,
3 p. m.
Women's basketball turnout,
Gym, 2:45 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, October 9
Alexis Literary society, Seminary
Chapel, 8 p. m.
FRIDAY, October 11
Women's Federation Smorgas-bord,
JC Chapel, 5:30 p. m.
TUESDAY, October 15
Chautauquan program, JC Cha-pel,
8 p. m.
"Gallup-poll" gag—
Produces 3 Suckers
By SCOOP
"A sucker is' born every four sec-onds,"
according to P. T. Barnum
of circus fame. That tradition
must hold good at Bethel.
Three suckers were produc-ed
from the Bethel student
body last Tuesday evening.
Everyone knows that Cliff
Bjorklund bit on the "Gallup-poll"
gag. But here's news—
BOB PAULSON AND GOR-DON
PETERSON WERE AL-SO
VICTIMS OF THE SAME
HOAX. The explanation of this
is hilariously embarrassing.
Gordon Nelson and Archie John-son
spent an uproarious evening
on the telephone as representa-tives
of the "Gallup poll." Their
first sucker was Bob Paulson, who
recommended Gordy Pete. These
fellows in turn thought that it
would be a great idea to fool some-one—
so, they called Cliff at 11:15
oclock.
Continued on page 3)
What is a school without a school
song?
We lack school spirit! What's
more, we won't have enthusiasm at
our athletic games! And we don't
have a song to carry away with us
as a part of our Bethel memories.
To overcome this deplorable
state of affairs, the CLARION
staff is announcing that it will
sponsor a song-writing contest.
Within the next month, Bethel
poets and poetesses will have a
chance to make a permanent
contribution to the Bethel heri-tage.
Authority to build a Girl's Dor-mitory
on the corner of Arlington
and Arona Avenues has been given
to the Conference Board—when it
sees that the project can be car-ried
through—by the Swedish Bap-tist
General conference at the con-vention
held at Rockford, Illinois,
this Summer. It is hoped that the
ground-breaking ceremony will take
place next Spring as soon as the
weather permits.
H. Wyman Malmsten, Bethel
representative, reports that of
the $40,000 necessary to build
the dormitory, over $33,000 has
been raised in cash and pledg-es.
Approximately half of this
amount is available in cash.
The Bethel Institute Women's
federation is planning a Swedish
Smorgasbord, on October 11, in or-der
to contribute to furnishing the
dormitory and also to donate chairs
to the Boarding club and the Cof-fee
shoppe.
—Now Open to Poets
All that is required is that each
writer submit words which could
fittingly be used for a Bethel
school song. This song will be
used at basketball games, school
events, and alumni meetings. Prof.
George Hultgren, in a similar con-test
conducted previously, promised
to compose the music for such a
song.
The deadline for entries will be
Friday, November 1. At that time,
the manuscripts will be judged,
music written, and the song learned
in time for the basketball season.
Full particulars will be announc-ed
on the bulletin board this week.
Gospel Teams
Attract 85
Students
Council Selects Team
and Prayer Leaders
Dale Bjork as vice-president of
the Religious council has already
organized the gospel-team work.
Following a chapel program, 85
of the students signed up for par-ticipation.
This compares favor-ably
with 72 participants of last
year.
Clifford Bjorklund, Gunnar
Hoglund, Ben Sherman, Mel-vin
Swanson, and Gordon John-son
are to be the leaders of the
teams for the first semester.
According to plans, the gospel
teams will cover a wider field
than last year. Teams will be
sent regularly to Linnea home,
West Side mission, Union Gos-pel
mission, and Ancker hos.
pital. Later in the year teams
will travel to nearby churches.
The council has also selected
leaders for the daily prayer meet-ings.
Gordon Larson will take
charge of the morning devotions.
Beverly Jones and Hazelle Possum
have been selected as leaders of
the boys' and of the girls' noon
praye' meetings, respectively. Le-ona
Pearson is in charge of the
evening prayer service.
The cabinet for this year is corn-posed
of the following members:
president, Elving Anderson; vice-president,
Dale Bjork; treasurer,
Muriel Petersen; Missionary band
representative, William Hagstrom;
adviser, Dr. G. Arvid Hagstrom.
C. E. Jones Leads
Program Series
Electricity! Aeronautics!
Music! Adventure! These are
the subjects to be presented by
the Chautauquan series this
year at Bethel.
C. E. Jones, an electrical scien-tist,
will bring us an up to date
program on "Silent Sounds And
Nerve Electricity" on Tuesday, Oc-tober
15.
Richard iFinnie, youthful vet-eran
of eight Arctic expedi-tions,
will present an illus-trated
lecture "Among The Ig-loo
Dwellers" on November 15.
On January 10, an illustrated
lecture on aeronautics will be
given by Walter van Haitsma,
an authority on this subject.
Stanley Osborne. an extensive
adventurer, will tell of his travels
below the equator. On April 4, Don-ald
Scott-Morrison, an outstanding
young pianist, will present a unique
program of music appreciation.
CLARION Contest For— SCHOOL SONG
The Bethel Clarion
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except in July and August.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL STAFF
Marvin Toews Editor
Paul Anderson Managing Editor
Alice Schouweiler Campus Editor
Caroline Dilgard, Roger Rendahl, Ethel Ruff Features
Elving Anderson, Betty Anderson, Eunice Anderson, Rosaline Anderson, Gun-ner
Hoglund, Herbert Johnson, Helen Heitzman, Dave Moberg, Jeanette
Peterson, Muriel Salmonson, Russel Taft.
Dallas West Daily News Service
Miss Enid Platts Adviser
BUSINESS STAFF
Archie Johnson Business Manager
Gerald Larson Advertising Assistant
Hazel Fossum, Doris Johnson Circulation Assistants
Dean Emery Johnson Adviser
Lemuel Petersen Chairman of Publications
Printed by the Anderson Press
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, : at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
HOBBY HORSE edito/ded ea.ti I MEDITATIONS
By CAROLINE DILGARD
Hobbies afford one much pleas-ure
and profit if pursued consist-ently.
Everyone can have some sort
of hobby whether costly or inex-pensive.
In each issue of the
CILARION this year we are going
to tell you about someone here at
Bethel who has a hobby of special
interest. This time we are taking
an outstanding hobbyist, Professor
Theodore Bergman.
Bergman is one of the busiest
people you will ever meet. He has
been for many years a well-known
Twin City organist and pianist.
One of his hobbies is playing piano
duos with James Shire Allen, but
he also has other interests not re-lated
to music.
In Northern Minnesota Bergman
has acquired a beautiful plot of
land on which there is a little
creek running down to Lake Su-perior.
He has built there a cot-tage
which Mrs. Bergman and June,
his daughter, have greatly enjoyed
decorating. To this quiet retreat
the Bergman family goes every
year to spend the month of August,
and also for short holidays when
time permits. This temporary rus-tic
life provides the rest necessary
to one living Bergman's life of al-most
ceaseless activity.
Photography is another of our
genial professor's hobbies, and a
profitable one too. IDvery year he
prints approximately 500 Christ-mas
cards for people who want the
unusual and the beautiful. He gets
as much as $1 for a single card.
He does exquisite work and his
cards are displayed in some of the
best stores in Minneapolis.
Bergman has yet another hobby
and that is collecting first issues of
magazines. He is justly proud of
his collection as it is one of the
largest in the northwest. It may
prove to be a gold mine in years to
come, for a lot of people are col-lecting
first issues and would give
their eye-teeth for some of those
Bergman has in his possession.
If you cherish an ambition to
live a rich and well-rounded life
such as Mr. Bergman does, why
not start today a hobby that will
help- you relax and yet will broad-en
your viewpoint and perhaps even
fill your purse? Watch the Hobby
Horse for further suggestions.
Thank you, repo4ers, faculty,
and others that, have cooperated to
make the publication of this issue
a pleasant job. The reporters had
their copy in on time (believe it or
not, miracles still happen).
Installation of BWA officers will
take place Thursday at 3 p. m. in
the women's recreation room with
Viola Waihela presiding. The regu-lar
meetings are on the first Thurs-day
of each month.
"MARRED, BUT REMADE"
In Jeremiah 18 we see that dis-couraged
prophet of God told to go
down to the potter's house, there
to learn a lesson of utmost im-portance.
The context reveals that
the lives of the people were marred
by sin and failure, and Jeremiah
thought he could do no more to
stay the people from destruction.
Curiously, no doubt, he watched
as the quick, clever hands of the
potter formed his vessel from a
lump of shapeless clay. Just a few
mores touches before completion—
and then, it crumbled at his feet.
". . . The vessel was marred." How
many marred lives are there to-day?
The Lord seeks to make His
children "meet for the Master's
use." God has a plan for every life
and He would fashion us accord-ing
to His will. Then why defeat
and failure? Something has come
in and marred that life; an unyield-ed
will, a proud spirit, an uncon-fessed
sin.
But the potter did not throw
away those broken bits of clay;
rather he gathered them together,
kneaded them in his hands and
placed it once again upon the
wheel. Have you ever thought
about that second vessel? Was it
as good as the first might have
been? Possibly not—and there is
such a thing as God's second best
for a life, But we have every rea-son
to believe it just as good and
that it served the original purpose.
Yes, and lives defeated by self and
sin, can be remade. Look at Da-vid,
his was a marred life, but God
remade Him. Think of Jacob, the
"supplanter," but he met the Lord
face to face and his name was
changed to Israel, "a prince with
God"—he had been remade. And
Peter, who denied his Lord was
made over at Pentecost, and went
out to be used of God.
Have Thine own way Lord, have
Thine own way.
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay.
Mold me and make me after Thy
will,
While I am waiting, yielded and
still.
—Dave Anderson.
VERSE
BE STILL, AND KNOW
I walked in the quiet of ev'ning
time;
I rested in midnight's deep;
I rose at the rosy dawn each day;
I toiled in the noontime heat.
I worked—and I thought as I hur-ried
on,
"Time's short—I must finish to-day."
But the Father placed His hands
on mine,
And spoke—"take time to pray."
That simple command—how hard
to keep—
Before to my work I can go—
He draws me gently to His side,
And says: "Be still, and know."
—Submitted.
Bethel Affords Opportunities For All
We propose to advance the cause of Bethel, for 'Bethel offers exclu-sive
advantages. It provides for the spiritual experience and growth of
its students, it offers opportunities to develop Christian leadership, it
is conducive to the building of strong character, it is interested in
strong spiritual, mental, social, and physical men and women.
Twenty years ago a group of progressive Bethelites with an eye for
the future of their Alma Mater organized a campus newspaper. The
past 20 years have not diminished this progressive spirit.
Last year the CLARION under the leadership of a capable editorial
and business staff with the faithful cooperation of its reporters again
advanced in size and quality. This year the staff will attempt to uphold
the high standard attained in past years to add to the CLARION'S former
successes.
"Student talent galore" was a comment we heard on the campus. It
is true that there is much talent in the Bethel student body. This has
been evidenced at various times and on numerous occasions. Now it
seems a shame that you poets and poetesses should permit but one or
two special friends to admire' your creations. Bring them in to the Pub-lications
office and let us print them. As soon as the issue with your
contribution is out, see one of the editorial staff and they will provide
you with as many copies as you can use to send to your various friends.
Make the CLARION your paper.
Of course we welcome suggestions. Where there is improvement
there is progress. Improvement presupposes change. We may be so
used to doing things a certain way that a better method will be smoth-ered
by a previous habit. Your suggestions will keep us out of a rut.
We will be glad to make any change for the better.
MICE AND THINGS .. .
By RODGER RENDAHL
The peoples of Israel had their
Hittites, their Cannonites and the
rest of their numerous "ites," but
Bethel has its Dormites, which ac-cording
to an old English defini-tion
means "certain types of mice
and other rodents which hibernate
through the winter" — thus the
name for this column.
The Dorm this year has 29 in-habitants
(complete now — Ferre
came back). Twenty-six are Semi-nary
students, of which an even
dozen hold churches. There are 10
states and two Canadian provinces
represented, which makes this
quite a cosmopolitan area.
Our Czecho-Slovakian choir di-rector
is now an accomplished bell
ringer, practicing at 6:30. Ole Nel-son
has left the high seas for the
upper deck, it seems more natural.
"Boom" has been seen wearing a
red shirt, which just goes to show
he has had a successful 'dear' sea-son.
'Pipe-the-Piper' Lundquist gets
the Dormites out with "Clean lin-en"
Saturday mornings. Sh-h-h-h,
we have curtains now.
Volleyball, Soccer, Football
Engaged In By Gym Classes
Physical education classes, under the supervision of Coach Bill Adams,
are engaged in volleyball tournaments.
An over-abundance of students in the Fredhmen Tuesday and
Thursday class was reason for the formation of another frosh class
which meets on Monday and Wednesday.
The sophomore women are en-grossed
in battling for volleyball
honors. This class is divided into
two teams, the Ace Balls and the
Dream Balls. Total results are as
follows: On Wednesday morning, every-
Won Lost one teased Cliff, but Bob and Gordy
Ace Balls 5 4 Pete thought their calls were not
Dream Balls 4 5 fake and hence were not in line for
The freshmen co-eds are also ridicule.
Gallup-poll
(Continued from page 1)
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playing themselves out in volley-ball.
There are enough girls in this
class to form four teams. Results
at this writing are as follows:
Won Lost
Bullets 8 4
Hot Shots 7 5
Infants 7 5
Buzzers 4 8
The sophomore boys are turning
their attention to volleyball also.
There are two teams in the sopho-more
class, the Dead End Kids
with five wins and one loss, and
the Super Men with just a reverse
record, one win and five losses.
The standings of the Tuesday and
Thursday freshmen class teams are
as follows:
Won Lost
Cowboys 7 2
Swedes 6 3
Plugs 4 5
Blitzkriegers 3 6
For the Monday and Wednesday
class, the Gophers are leading the
Foreigners, 12 wins and four loss-es,
the Foreigners having the re-verse
of that score.
Another sport worthy of mention
is intramural touch football. Some
of the scores up to this writing are
as follows:
College Sophs 28
College Frosh 0
Seminary 19
College Left-Overs 14
These battles take place on Mon-day,
Wednesday and Friday. The
Championship team will take on an
All-Star roster during Homecom-ing.
Everyone is invited to witness
these three-per-week scraps •which
start at 4:00 p. m.
Debate To Begin When
Question Is Received
A varied and active forensic pro-gram
is being planned for the year.
This activity will again be under
the direction of Miss Enid Platts.
Actual work on the debate ques-tion
will not begin until after the
Pi Kappa Delta debate question for
colleges is announced. Until that
time the students will be engaged
in studying the principles of argu-mentation.
There are nine students
participating in this activity.
FOR TREATS IN EATS
Go to the
MIDTOWN COFFEE SHOP
1535 W. Como Ave.
It is no longer fair to think
of Cliff as the sucker, but this
exclusive story reveals that
other characters are doing well
at biting on this subtle gag.
Four questions were asked by the
"Gallup poll"—(1) Who do you fa-vor—
Roosevelt or Willkie? (2) Are
you in favor of conscription? (3)
Who will win the war—Great Brit-ain
or Germany? (4) What color
hair do you prefer?
Both Bob and Gordy were found
to be supporters of Willkie, and
Cliff was undecided. Gordy and
Cliff were opposed to conscription
with Bob approving the measure.
Bob, only, thought that Germany
would win the war, while Gordy
and Cliff held to Britain's superior
strength. In answer to a question
as to the color of hair favored,
Cliff called brunette his choice.
1941 Spire
(Continued from page 1)
To introduce the SPIRE plans to
the student body, a chapel pro-gram
will be given tomorrow.
An evening program to raise ad-ditional
money for the year-book
is planned for Friday evening, No-vember
29.
SOLICIT CLARION
ADVERTISERS
WHEN YOU BUY
YOU SELL
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IF
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The Clarion.
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Snelling at Thomas
Have Your Shoe Doctoring
done at
TILDEN'S
SHOE REPAIR SHOP
Arona and Albany
Historic Homecoming
To Use Indian Motif
Plans for Homecoming Day,
which will be Friday, November 1,
are centered about an Indian
theme. At the first meeting of the
combined committees this motif
was decided upon.
Many suggestions were of-fered
during the meeting to
make this year's event an out-standing
one in the history of
Bethel Homecomings, accord-ing
to Virgil Olson, general
chairman.
The committees will meet
again today to plan more de-tails
for the coming gala event.
Because this school year marks
the 70th anniversary of the found-ing
of the Serdinary and the 10th
of the beginning of the Junior Col-lege,
some events of historical in-terest
will be worked in. Sugges-tions
were also made for a fresh-man-
sponsored bonfire the night
before Homecoming, for a sand-bag
fight on the campus of Homecom-ing
afternoon, and for a program
to fill the entire Homecoming day
after chapel.
The Indian theme was
thought suggestive for the en.
tire program because the ath-letic
teams are familiarly
known by that term.
The five committees working on
the plan are: program, publicity,
decorations, souvenirs, and eats.
Cage Season Begins ,
For Hopeful Coeds
Co-eds of Bethel will be after the
ol' pill again this year. The first
basketball practice of the season
for the women will be held Thurs-day
afternoon, at 2:45 o'clock,
Coach Bill Adams supervising the
action.
Regular practice is scheduled for
every Thursday at this same hour.
In order to make the team, all
players must be on hand each
Thursday.
TILDEN FOOD MARKET
Arona & Albany Ayes.
B. RIEGER'S MEAT -MARKET
Now located at
1337 Pascal Avenue
Free Delivery
NEstor 1368
Hoop Season
Begins Today
With Turnouts
Basketball prospects will swing
into action with a turnout of all
candidates today at 3 : 30 p. m.,
Coach Bill Adam announced. Pro-spective
freshmen are urged to at-tend
this meeting.
The frosh and last year's
varsity team will scrimmage
every Tuesday and Thursday
afternoon. This type of prac-tice
will continue until after
Homecoming, when Coach
Adam will start cutting the
squad. As this goes on, the
first real practice of basket-ball
fundamentals will take
place.
Although the schedule for the
season is not completed, the first
game will be played in the first
part of December.
Written Matter Barred
From Laundry Parcels
No written matter can be
enclosed in any package or
laundry parcel, according to
Post Office regulations. The
inclusion of such matter places
the article in first-class mail,
which demands a much higher
sending cost, and if undeclar-ed,
places sender under liabili-ty
of a fine.
NEstor 6311
Peerless Cleaning and
Dyeing
Bethel Representative
ALRICK BLOMQUIST
Room 201
S. Berglund Lumber Co.
824 Arcade St.
1171 Snelling Ave. No.
Westlund's
QUALITY FOODS AT FAIR
PRICES
Prompt Delivery Service
597 Snelling Avenue No.
Phone: NEstor 1321
927 Rice Street
Phone: I4Umboldt 1338
1219 Arcade
Phone: TOwer 3291
Rev. R. E.
Omark
Seminary
Prof. F.
Nelson
J. C.
Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Omark, Nelson Added to Sem, J. C. Staff
Hultgren Forms
Women's Choir
What! No A Cappella choir?
That's right. There is going to be
no mixed chorus this year.
A Women's chorus will be
organized in four-part harmony
to take the place of the A Cap-pella.
The different parts will
cover the regular harmonic
schedule, for example, the low
altos singing the part ordinari-ly
taken by the second bass of
a mixed choir. Some good ma-terial
for this type of chorus
has been discovered, Hultgren
said.
Professor George Hultgren made
this announcement after he had
finished the voice tryouts. How-ever,
the Male chorus will func-tion
as usual. No results of the
try-outs have been made public as
yet, but announcements will be
made either tomorrow or Thurs-day.
Band Will Play For
Games and Programs
Twenty-five individuals, 13 of
them old members and 12 new,
have already registered for the
band. This is a considerable in-crease
over the 15 members par-ticipating
last year, according to
Gordon Peterson, band leader.
The band will play at basketball
games, various school activities,
and for about half an hour before
most Chautauquan programs.
Alexis Imitators Mimic
Preachers, October 9
Exceptional mimickers will imi-tate
their favorite ministers
Wednesday evening, October 9 in
the Seminary chapel, at the first
meeting of the Alexis Literary so-ciety.
Members will try to guess
who is represented. John Bergeson,
announced that a musical and de-votional
period followed by a so-cial
hour of games and refresh-ments
in the dining hall will be
conducted after the regular meet-ing.
Five programs have been plan-ned
for this semester. Nearly every
member of the society will have
some part in these programs
which, according to Bergeson, will
be entertaining, uplifting, educa-tional,
and helpful. The program
will occur on the following Wednes-day
evenings: October 9, October
30, November 27, and December 11.
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Omark Takes Over
Teaching Post In Sem
"I'm glad I came!"
This was the comment of Rev.
R. E. Omark, new instructor in the
Seminary, after a week's acquaint-ance
with his new duties.
Rev. Omark returns to Beth-el
after two year's experience
teaching high school, and 11
year's service in two pastor-ates.
He received his training
at the University of Illinois,
Bethel seminary, and South-western
Baptist seminary.
He is married and has a 4 year
old daughter. His home state is
Illinois. As to age, he claims to be
Colonel Charles Lindbergh's twin.
His hobbies run along sport-ing
and agrarian lines; tennis
and vegetable gardening occu-pying
most of his leisure time.
He would rather participate in
sports than watch others play.
He has also coached high
school basketball.
"To me, Bethel means opportun-ity,"
said Professor Omark, "oppor-tunity
for enlarged vision, oppor-tunity
for rare fellowship, and op-portunity
for consecrated service."
C. E. Carlson Finds
Vacation Busy Time
Between periods of studying,
preaching, and teaching, Professor
C. E. Carlson found very little time
for leisure activity this summer.
For one week he taught a course
in orientation and living within
God's will (which Bethel students
call "advance freshman lectures")
at the Minnesota Swedish summer
assembly in Alexandria.
Almost without exception he ful-filled
one or two pulpit engage-ments
on Sundays, and often spoke
at a B.Y.P.U. meeting or taught a
Sunday School class.
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Fridolph Nelson Joins
Junior College . Faculty
Coming from a pioneer Baptist
family into our midst as an in-structor,
Professor Fridolph Nel-son
of Berkeley, California, has
expressed his delight in his new
position with "We like the coun-try,
we like the school and we es-pecially
like the people!"
He was born into the home
of Rev. F. 0. ,Nelson, pioneer
Baptist minister and one of the
first graduates of Morgan Park
seminary, Chicago. Prof. Nel-son
has spent his entire life in
the western part of the United
States, living in Montana, Min-nesota,
Washington, and Cali-fornia.
Prof. Nelson received his entire
education in California, graduating
from Turlock High school. He re-ceived
an M. A. degree from the
University of California this year,
after taking graduate student work
from January to August.
Of the nine brothers and sis-ters
in the F. 0. Nelson family,
six are either in or directly
connected with the Christian
work, and are scattered from
Cuba to Shanghai.
Prof. Nelson has always had the
feeling that he would sometime Jive
in the land of his father, Minne-sota.
This dream has now been
realized.
Olson Teaches, Preaches
During Summer
Prof. Adolph Olson, soft-spoken
Seminary teacher of Bible, church
history, church polity, systematic
theology, and history of Baptists,
spent a summer unlike any student.
His vacation period was filled in
teaching and preaching at various
assemblies and young people's
classes.
During the earlier part of the
summer he spent some time at
the Twin City boys' and girls'
camp at Wood Lake, Wiscon-sin.
Mrs. Olson had charge of
the girls' section of the camp.
At the young people's assembly
of Michigan he took up his duties
as a teacher and taught two young
people's 'classes.
Later he spent two weeks at the
young people's assembly of New
York at Elim Park, Conn. Besides
teaching a class in Baptist distinc-tives,
he also did some preaching.
Bapt. Youth
Plan Advance
Lemuel Petersen was elected
vice-president of the Minnesota
B.Y.P.U. at its recent convention
in Winona, Minnesota. Last year,
the served as state ace for the or-ganization.
Ray Anderson of the Northwest-ern
Bible school was re-elected
president of the state organization.
A nine-point program was
adopted for the coming year:
youth evangelism, associational
cooperation, appointment of a
Director of Christian Educa-tion,
new plan of finances, pub-lication
of an annual-directory,
Life Service league, summer
assembly, cooperation in Bap-tist
Youth fellowship, and lead-ership
training.
Lowell Marquardt, sophomore,
was the state 'vice-president last
year. Elna Finstrom, '40, was re-elected
editor of the organization's
service monthly bulletin. Warren
Soule, ex 40, was elected state ace
for the coming year.
Prayer-Mission Day
Plans Being Completed
Do you need prayer?' Are you in-terested
in missions?
Prayer and Mission Day will be
observed at Bethel 'Wednesday, Oc-tober
23. The committee for ar-rangements
is Miss Esther Sabel,
chairman; Miss Effie Nelson, Dean
K. J. Karlson, Dean Emery John-son,
and Professor Adolph Olson.
The committee is completing
arrangements to obtain special
speakers for the program.
Miss Sabel urges all students
to be present as she believes
that the meeting will be a great
blessing and much benefit to
all who attend.
Completed details will be an-nounced
later.
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